Guild Wars 2

akamon.2769:

styx.7294:

What I was thinking about was 2 water/2 monk/2 traveler’s for boon duration

and this. ^^
if boon duration is yo thing.

I’m trying it on healway just to be more support. 95% boon duration is kinda neat, haha. I’m usually in a ~5 man group so maybe havin those extra seconds on protection for everyone means something.

rolls eyes at XOXO We get it, you’re not impressed. You’re never impressed though!

I liked the video. Nice to see small man stuff in tier 1. You lost me at step 4 though. I didn’t understand the words “your zerg”!

SonOfKrypton.4357:

Neeho.3859:

The JP is a jumping puzzle. It’s PvE with a chance to die if you don’t bring your friends. It’s in a separate zone, and is not WvW.

The Orichalcum nodes were in there long before they moved the puzzle to a separate zone and by your definition at this point in time, was WvW.

Neeho.3859:

A chance for 1 or 2 nodes a day, if they’re up that week, in one zone, is not addressing a reward imbalance between pve and wvw. In order to get T6 and T7 crafting materials, gold, loot drops, etc. it is MUCH faster to do it in PvE than in WvW. All I would like is for Devon to actually do what he says he will do.

But why does there need to be a complete balance between PvE and WvW?

Why does it have to be, “You get even rewards by playing both game modes!” It baffles me as to where this assumption came from.

You clearly think (rightly so) that they’re different game modes, so by that logic, the rewards should be different, right? You can’t always have the best of both worlds.

Fractals, Orr karma trains, dungeons, boss farming, living story, they all pay extremely well. You’re lucky to break even in WvW (between siege, upgrade costs, long periods without killing anyone while you travel/scout, consumables much more required, higher risk of death and repairs. That this isn’t right should not baffle anyone.

Rob.7624:

titanlectro.5029:

Rob.7624:

Ouch. This musta hurt.

Seriously Rob? Do you have any NEW material? The night-capping troll is getting worn out. I expect better from you!

Baby all my material is new material.
Me and my GoM buddies.

Didn’t see that coming did you.

Leet’s in tM so you only get half a point for makin friends with him!

Only problem with off-peak hours is the off-peak hour threads. I think we can solve that though.

I think the lack of fights/population on the lower tiers definitely makes us poorer, haha. I’ll pop like 8 silver worth of consumables and have 2 fights against players before the buff runs out sometimes.

What I’ve heard that I liked is making the rank chests be rares. That’s only a start though. How are the league rewards gonna work anyway? Do the PvE only players get rewards? People who log into WvW once that season? Can I get a chest every time someone kills the Shatterer?

Dag.1257:

Need to remember that if you fail in taking a temple you have to go through a rather long chain to start to unlock it, which doesn’t happen right away.

On the other hand, if your assault on the keep fails, you can regroup and try again rather quickly. I am curious if you have ever tried to unlock Balthazars Temple? Gates of Arah?

Do think they may want to up the rate from a Keep, but not as much for trying to take a temple (I’ve been in temple fights where we have mass zerg, 40+ and fail)

I’ve been in/seen sieges that take 4 hours and only some succeed and yeah, more than 40 people involved.

Sure, sometimes it’s a quick cap but from what I’ve heard you can do Balthazar with like 7 people too (apparently avoiding the upscaling helps).

I’ve found the best remedy for bad morale is to actually log in and kill people!

What I was thinking about was 2 water/2 monk/2 traveler’s for boon duration

Maybe it’ll help motivate PvE servers to become WvW servers. I dunno, we’ll see how it turns out. Server transfers do cost a fair bit and I don’t yet think we know what the rewards are.

Whoah, +10 stats and 2% crit damage + 15% boon duration for 2 runes! Worth 100 healing power?

Guardian meta theorycrafting belongs in the guardian forum.

Achilles.2197:

styx.7294:

People who want to transfer to tier 1 should form up a guild, make a thread saying you’re a WvW guild that wants to transfer, and then get their ride paid for by one of the tier 1 servers. You can disband after.

BG pays guilds, don’t bother including JQ and SoR.

I don’t think you know Jade Quarry as well as you think you do on that point.

People who want to transfer to tier 1 should form up a guild, make a thread saying you’re a WvW guild that wants to transfer, and then get their ride paid for by one of the tier 1 servers. You can disband after.

Well, at least glad the drops are droppin in WvW. Don’t take many keeps though. I guess I will start my evening by making a train through the supply camps in each borderland? This is gonna be weird.

Prosecutor.1457:

Banzie.5248:

We have females active on the meatspeak

The real question is, are they single?

The female population of Isle of Janthir is not well served by a commander who thinks you’re on Teamspeak so that this sexist guild can hit on you.

kittening disgusting, both of you.

JKFlipFlop.7123:

I wave to my friends on GoM, and I get mauled. How is that any way to treat an old comrade. I wave at Nightchill and she kills me. I wave at Para and he kills me. I wave at Niny and he kills me. I have sad.

This is my favourite post by you so far! Keep it up!

sephiroth.4217:

pita spoon.5708:

sephiroth, you left gom?

Yes a bit over a week ago the guild transferred, we miss a lot of you guys but getting private messages with abuse about how we are traitors and what not it gets a little frustrating, sorry for posting on your match up thread too.

Hope GoM does well in this new league thing I heard about ^.^

It would help matters if your guildies weren’t posting and laughing about how they’re buying golems for servers we’re fighting against.

DevonCarver.5370:

styx.7294:

And influx of rewards? The influx of rewards is 10 gold/hour farming, talk to NPC for 10 achievement points, and unique weapon skins every 2 weeks in Living Story. You better be bringing hell of a lot of rewards for me to tell someone in Lion’s Arch that it’s worth their time to step away from autoattacking in a PvE map and risk actually dying somewhere.

Well, I can’t promise it will work, but I’m kitten sure trying.

Heh, thanks. Sorry, I’m a lil’ worried about the low tier servers. AR, GoM, and DR weren’t the biggest servers but lately they’ve gotten a lot smaller. I’m startin to worry that WvW is really about to become dead on some servers. It’s one thing to see guilds transfer because there’s drama but it’s a different thing to see transfers happen because guilds aren’t findin enough to play to fight with or fight against. Especially when those same transfers make the problem worse.

DevonCarver.5370:

bradderzh.2378:

The issues are not usually that a server has low population, it’s that a server has a low wvw population. A top tier server that has lots of dedicated wvw guilds around the clock who primarily care about wvw don’t neccasarilly have a higher population than lower tier servers, it’s could just be that the ratio of wvw to PvE/spvp players is higher.

However, you can’t tell people what game type to play, so you will still lose each week because they don’t want to help out in wvw.

The issue is, that while you may be on these lower tier servers and still care just as much about wvw as the higher tier servers, you are essentially on the wrong server and if this system rewards the heavily stacked servers more it’s only going to promote more stacking.

You mention in this post why nothing is changing here. We can’t merge servers based on what percentage of players on a server play WvW. We make determinations about servers based on their overall population. Your best bet is to use the influx of rewards from the season to convince people on your server to start paying attention to WvW. Or convince people to transfer to your server to boost your WvW ranks.

People been making all sorts of arguments about why people should move to their transfer but as far as I can tell the smallest servers keep getting smaller and the largest servers keep getting larger.

The scarcity of fights in the low tiers is an often heard reason for guilds transferrin to higher tiers (tiers that can afford to offer to pay for larger guilds to transfer, making a joke of the transfer fee). And that scarcity is only getting worse with each transfer.

And influx of rewards? The influx of rewards is 10 gold/hour farming, talk to NPC for 10 achievement points, and unique weapon skins every 2 weeks in Living Story. You better be bringing hell of a lot of rewards for me to tell someone in Lion’s Arch that it’s worth their time to step away from autoattacking in a PvE map and risk actually dying somewhere.

I’m a lil’ perplexed with how much hate is in this thread. I was lookin forward to fightin Northern Shiverpeaks and glad to see Eredon Terrace growing.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

thhoj.9382:

madchatter.7964:

thhoj.9382:

This week’s fight night was pretty lame. Not much people showed up

I don’t know where you were, but tonight has been anything but lame…

(teamspeak, ASH channel, go! )

I was talking about the fight night at gom bl southern windmill. No AR showed up. There was like 3-5 peopel from GOM. Only FC had a lot of people from the YARR guild, but they left shortly after since it was pretty dead.

That’s because they’re all busy trying to stream-snipe me. lol

AND LAGGING THE CRAP OUT OF MY CONNECTION >:/

Hahaha, we’re totally gonna make this stream thing a regular thing. It’s a ton of fun!

Pryda.8257:

Anyone can do this, what’s the problem with it then?

I’d say just that it’s annoying to do.

If he kicks an offline member out of his party, I’m going to open a bottle of champagne.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

styx.7294:

pita spoon.5708:

GenerationX.9178:

GoM vs FC Zerg Battle Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZlRfzOQdVw

that was a fun fight.. kudos to fc for their victory in that. quite a few of us made the mistake of staying out of the lords room when they stealthed the last time they came in, but once they got in the lords room we couldn’t get them out.

but hey loot bags all around.

Yeah, it’s easy to get distracted and start fighting outside the tower rather than sit and wait – a lotta green dots on the minimap there but if we had like maybe 5 more people we coulda wiped them in the lord room I think.

That happens to us a lot, haha. Like in Gen’s video he’s fightin somewhere other than the lord room while they’re capping the lord room near the end… =P

Edit: Sweet banish at 4:18

But all the loot bags were outside!

Video evidence seems to suggest that there was a number of them in the lord room. Those ought to come first if you are trying to hold the tower.

Vena.8436:

styx.7294:

If WvW will never work, what have I been playing for the last year?

WvWvW, different game entirely.

Oh! That explains that.

Sarrs.4831:

DevonCarver.5370:

Daendur.2357:

What’s happening? They realized WvW is part of the game ?

Good one!

Ya’ll should do an AMA or something. That’d be neat.

I don’t even know what AMA stands for, but yeah, the dialogue this past week’s been pretty good.

Ask Me Anything.

They’re pretty lengthy (like usually take up hours of some person’s time).

If WvW will never work, what have I been playing for the last year?

Hm, never thought of this but I would be okay with seeing it gone. It’s pretty much required if you want to be at your best and leads things that are just plain annoying (like having duplicate/triplicate weapons in your backpack that you constantly have to switch through and people stopping to farm coyotes).

Oozo.7856:

Pretty much the people that left did so because they weren’t finding enough fights on a regular basis, not because DR was going down in rankings. AD moved to DR when it was at the bottom in T8. We moved from T2 to avoid the zergs and we had a great time in T8 as there were almost always people to fight the second you left your waypoint.

Over the past few months things have changed in the lower tiers. We’ve found ourselves quite often moving from BL to BL not finding any good fights. And, I’m not going all PAXA on you here, because there are a lot of great fighters in the lower tiers. This is just a case of spending too many nights roaming for hours not finding the types of fights we are looking for or not finding anyone at all.

Too many servers in the lower tiers go to a BL in one big zerg. They take everything and then leave the zone completely. So, often times all we find are one or two players trying to get to the zerg or doing vistas or scouts who sit in a tower or people who are only willing to fight right outside their tower door (even when they have even numbers or better).

The good open field even number fights are just too far in between to justify playing in the lower tiers at the moment. I dislike the zerginess of where we moved to at times, but at least we are pretty much guaranteed to get some action almost immediately after we leave a waypoint.

I just think the lower tiers are dying due to population and playstyle issues.

It is a bit awkward to see so many guilds leavin from the smallest servers right now and complaints about the lack of fights is somethin I’ve heard a lot as well. Maybe if they lowered the gem value for movin to lower tier servers further (and I don’t mean world population but tiers!) Just for curiousity’s sake, where did you end up?

pita spoon.5708:

GenerationX.9178:

GoM vs FC Zerg Battle Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZlRfzOQdVw

that was a fun fight.. kudos to fc for their victory in that. quite a few of us made the mistake of staying out of the lords room when they stealthed the last time they came in, but once they got in the lords room we couldn’t get them out.

but hey loot bags all around.

Yeah, it’s easy to get distracted and start fighting outside the tower rather than sit and wait – a lotta green dots on the minimap there but if we had like maybe 5 more people we coulda wiped them in the lord room I think.

That happens to us a lot, haha. Like in Gen’s video he’s fightin somewhere other than the lord room while they’re capping the lord room near the end… =P

Edit: Sweet banish at 4:18

I thought the order was party → players → NPCs?

If there’s only 23 to be had, I call dibs on one.

cheshirefox.7026:

and a ram             

I like this.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

GenerationX.9178:

I had some nice fights last night. I got it on fraps, sorry for it not being ace quality but I though I post it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MgMCEJLTrY

You’re a CLICKER??? It’s like I don’t even know you anymore. o_O

I share Taquito’s sentiment!

Legendary buffs?
New tier for weapons?
No WvW stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGes7FDmHAM

I sent ya a reply.

Yam.2891:

does anyone else enjoy posting videos as much as i do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Coxp3nlowE

Ugh, no one makes me feel bad at Guild Wars 2 as much as SPCA does.

Darek.1836:

yes the matchup of fallen giants .. once upon a time FC was in last place of T7 for a week.. before promptly being stomped back to the truly glorious tier.

Might also be a reference to my beer gut.

I’m hopin they turn into gold like the voting tokens did.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Myst.5783:

CreepyBunny.9730:

Take a look at this Zombie Land video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRj4f5_DRg

Not to belittle Wulf’s video, but if you’re going to try and brag/gloat at least post a video of us actually doing something. We’ve had fun fights, terrible defeats, and great victories on the battlefield since we moved. We’ve made great progress from what we were on GoM, but we’ve still got a long way to go. There’s the fact no matter what you posted it would simply be discounted by those here.

It’s not a bad video. The OP isn’t claiming to show off skill in the video or brag about accomplishments. It’s simply a montage video to show a little pride for the guild.

The problem is, the audience that would appreciate it isn’t in this matchup thread. ZL chose to leave GoM. Coming back to post stuff like that will likely be construed as “trying to rub it in our faces” regardless of the OP’s actual intentions. Deserved or not, don’t be surprised if actions like that are met with at least some small measure of hostility and ridicule.

Edit: I accidentally a word.

Creepy’s from Zombieland? Boy, it’s awkward how lame he looks now.

dank.3680:

I love the invite feature, my friend list has 20x more enemies then server friendlies on it. In fact several of my guildies I met from an enemy server.

Maybe it’s just your server hates you!

You want a subscription that bad? Just put $15 into the gem store every month. Easy.

Fryggenbart.3907:

and more wxp for capturing towers isn´t unfair for servers with low wvw-population who get karmatrained by servers with high wvw-population all day?

wvw is never fair, but i can´t understand why you get 200wxp for killing the ice worm (-> pve), while you get maximum 60 (if the foe does not die too often) for a kill (-> pvp)

At least in North America that isn’t the case for lower WvW population servers.

The highest WvW level people are in the upper tiers. Clearly they’re better at farming the ice worm if it gives so much more XP than killing players.

It wouldn’t be fair to lower tier servers who doesn’t have as big zergs. Transferring to tier 1 shouldn’t make you automatically richer than someone in tier 9.

Boulderbolg.3460:

Joey.2769:

Why is it that I have to go broke if I want to play WvW but the PvE people this last few weeks have amassed enough cash to buy precursors? Change the supply camp claimers to champs and increase the quality drops in WvW.

Great question. I have a follow up question: Since WvW players are a lot poorer than PvE’ers, I bet they spend more money on the gem store. Assuming that logic makes sense and is true in reality, why does most development go to PvE?

To the people saying that money is fine in WvW: I don’t zerg, but I don’t spend a dime on siege or upgrades (I don’t care about the PPT). I earn around a gold a night in WvW. My friends earned 100+ gold last week each in PvE. I can’t afford to buy the top tier food and oils any more due to the absurd inflation lately (thanks to PvE’ers). If I want to level and gear another WvW character, that’ll be another $15 for Anet.

The food price situation is seriously out of control, which is crazy because in WvW you need it much more to stay competitive. And if you’re tryin to ninja towers as a small group, I can go 30 min with only a few fights but spend the 20s (or whatever).

Tossed Fish.7380:

styx.7294:

Sinester.3572:

Tossed Fish.7380:

styx.7294:

Neat!

We’ve done a lot better the last couple days. Even durin NA prime time! Maybe Henge of Denravi got tired and we’re fresh from our nap!

Pretty much. We kinda got bored. Least me and my guildies have. The new patch also got a lot of Hengies busy along with school starting for many others.

That and we have enough points that we don’t even need to play the rest of the matchup and still win, so a lot of ppl have more things to do .

gasp! These sound like excuses!

Oh hell no. I’ll see you tonight. Get ready for some kitten whoopin my friend, you dirty jack-o-lope killers.

I actually have a wedding rehearsal (not my wedding thankfully!) to be at this evening but if I get a chance to be on I might end up in a similar place than you possibly and then we might get at each other through the zergs and I will probably hope your cooldowns are up so that you don’t target me and corrupt my boons if I have any up at the time!

Sinester.3572:

Tossed Fish.7380:

styx.7294:

Neat!

We’ve done a lot better the last couple days. Even durin NA prime time! Maybe Henge of Denravi got tired and we’re fresh from our nap!

Pretty much. We kinda got bored. Least me and my guildies have. The new patch also got a lot of Hengies busy along with school starting for many others.

That and we have enough points that we don’t even need to play the rest of the matchup and still win, so a lot of ppl have more things to do .

gasp! These sound like excuses!

Very presumptuous post. Is anything in it correct? I leave that for braver men than I.

Fixed party system